C.S. Lewis from his book Miracles:
Now for more boring background. Anara gets ultrasounds every 6 weeks. A December ultrasound revealed the twentysome stones we had removed in January. A March ultrasound revealed the 1 stone we had removed in April and Wednesday's ultrasound revealed two sizable stones that can no longer be found. The stones were 1cm diameter, showed shadowing, and moved around (all these details supporting them being stones). Dr. Kaefer called the radiologist and he confirmed that there were indeed two stones. I was kinda pushy on Wednesday about the cystoscopy and then Thursday night I was feeling a little guilty. He is busy and doesn't have many open moments and I had pushed for this procedure that was probably just a big waste of his time and our money. I told him Friday morning when he came in from the OR that if he was just doing the cysto to humor me then we didn't want to waste his time. He said that he was confident there were stones but he thought the cysto would give him a good opportunity to see if Anara could handle this useful procedure without anesthesia, let him explore her reservoir and her channel, and find out how big the stones actually are. Anara did great and we avoided having to schedule another surgery under general anesthesia on Monday. Dr. Kaefer said that there was maybe a 1% chance of finding no stones. He was pretty amazed.
If a miracle is something extraordinary then this was definitely a miracle. This would have been Anara's 3rd surgery this year for stone removal. The ultrasound indicated the presence of two large stones. Dr. Kaefer flipped back and forth between the March ultrasound and Wednesday's ultrasound examining the stones and confirming that the ultrasound wasn't just showing the ureter nipples entering her reservoir. He agreed with the radiologists findings that there were indeed two large stones. He was thrilled to be proved wrong. We are very excited not to be headed to Riley on Monday for Anara's 10th surgery.
"Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary. Belief in miracles, far from depending on an ignorance of the laws of nature, is only possible in so far as those laws are known. We have already seen that if you begin by ruling out the supernatural you will perceive no miracles. We must now add that you will equally perceive no miracles until you believe that nature works according to regular laws. If you have not yet noticed that the sun always rises in the East you will see nothing miraculous about his rising one morning in the West."Anara had a cystoscopy this morning per my request. I had heard Dr. Kaefer mention an older girl with stones that had a cysto in clinic. He usually does this procedure with Anara asleep in the OR. I asked Dr. Kaefer why he couldn't do this with Anara in the clinic and he told me that the other patient was 14, in a wheelchair from spina bifida, and was capable of holding still. I assured him that Anara was capable of holding still as well. Whether he was humoring me or not, this morning was remarkable. Dr. Kaefer inserted the scope through her channel and searched everywhere FINDING NO STONES!
Now for more boring background. Anara gets ultrasounds every 6 weeks. A December ultrasound revealed the twentysome stones we had removed in January. A March ultrasound revealed the 1 stone we had removed in April and Wednesday's ultrasound revealed two sizable stones that can no longer be found. The stones were 1cm diameter, showed shadowing, and moved around (all these details supporting them being stones). Dr. Kaefer called the radiologist and he confirmed that there were indeed two stones. I was kinda pushy on Wednesday about the cystoscopy and then Thursday night I was feeling a little guilty. He is busy and doesn't have many open moments and I had pushed for this procedure that was probably just a big waste of his time and our money. I told him Friday morning when he came in from the OR that if he was just doing the cysto to humor me then we didn't want to waste his time. He said that he was confident there were stones but he thought the cysto would give him a good opportunity to see if Anara could handle this useful procedure without anesthesia, let him explore her reservoir and her channel, and find out how big the stones actually are. Anara did great and we avoided having to schedule another surgery under general anesthesia on Monday. Dr. Kaefer said that there was maybe a 1% chance of finding no stones. He was pretty amazed.
If a miracle is something extraordinary then this was definitely a miracle. This would have been Anara's 3rd surgery this year for stone removal. The ultrasound indicated the presence of two large stones. Dr. Kaefer flipped back and forth between the March ultrasound and Wednesday's ultrasound examining the stones and confirming that the ultrasound wasn't just showing the ureter nipples entering her reservoir. He agreed with the radiologists findings that there were indeed two large stones. He was thrilled to be proved wrong. We are very excited not to be headed to Riley on Monday for Anara's 10th surgery.
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Our God is a great big God!
woo-hoo!!
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